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Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa / Robert J. Thornton.
LIBRA RA643.86.U33 T46 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thornton, Robert J. (Robert James), 1949-
- Series:
- California series in public anthropology ; 20.
- California series in public anthropology ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Uganda--Epidemiology.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--South Africa--Epidemiology.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Uganda.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- Epidemiology.
- South Africa.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
- Uganda.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.
- Anthropology, Cultural--methods.
- Health Policy.
- Sexual Behavior.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
- South Africa.
- Uganda.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.
- Anthropology, Cultural--methods.
- Health Policy.
- Sexual Behavior.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence lose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks-rather than changes in individual behavior-were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence, incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, he also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide.
- Contents:
- Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS
- Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property
- The social determinants of sexual network configuration
- The tightening chain: civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS
- AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery
- Siliimu as native category: AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda
- Uganda"s indigenization of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda
- South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS
- Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics
- Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa
- Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520255524
- 0520255526
- 9780520255531
- 0520255534
- OCLC:
- 181903314
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